Posted on 10/04/2011 5:35:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
Wall Street ‘occupation’ much ado about nobodies
The Occupy Wall Street protest is reminiscent of the scene in the 1953 film “The Wild One” where a young woman asks a motorcycle gang leader played by Marlon Brando, “Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?” Brando deadpans, “Whaddya got?”
The New York demonstration is in its third week, and similar protests have sprung up in other cities. Other than some temporary traffic blockages, the movement hasn’t achieved anything tangible. It is a method without a message; rather, the method is the message. The protest is an exercise in creative anarchy, a statement against ill-defined and probably misunderstood power, a directionless movement claiming to represent 99 percent of America. It seeks to raise awareness, but where you go after that is up to you. It has no organization, uncertain goals, unlisted membership and lots of cardboard signs.
There is something for almost every type of radical in the occupy movement. It welcomes hard-currency advocates, opponents of water fluoridation, anti-war groups, anti-capitalists, anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-socialists, anti-Bilderbergers, opponents of the bank bailout, and chemtrail activists, among others. Their signs scream, “People over profit!” “Get out and shout!” “Eat the rich!” “End the Fed!” and “Dissent is patriotic!”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Soon as the cold weather rolls in, they’ll scatter
No doubt about it. Their hearts may be in it now but their hearts will feel differently in the cold.
ROFL!
Someone in NYC should take soap, shampoo and deodorant to them. Watch’em scatter.
But read the comments after the article. Truly frightening that this is what our country has come to.
Click here.
Offer them jobs and watch them scatter.
Thanks but linky no work for me.
As my first wife used to say, "The only thing worse than looking for a job is finding one."
Can’t wait for it to stop being “peaceful” (or has the violence just not been reported?). We’ll see how the flower children like it then.
Thanks Jaz I’m not a good linker :-)
It’s horrifying. At least 95% pure Socialist.
I do not see Biden calling them terrorists as he did to the Tparty which blocked nothing... hmmm
Now we understand why Zero/Hillary were in favor of MuslimBrotherhood “protests for freedom” in Egypt
Most welcome, GG.
You’re absolutely right, the socialists were out in full force and will be until this ends.
Rather than label it anarchism, it may be better to spread the words that these are protest against Obama and the Democratic Party. That way the leftist media would go panic and have a nightmare.
This is more ominous to me than to those who have posted comments. I think Glenn Beck’s harping on: Take them at their word - applies. Van Jones is leading today’s conference. The unions will be marching tomorrow. They are digging in, perhaps because, as Jones said, they miscalculated by rallying around a person (BHusseinO) unlike the Tea Party who rallied around ideas. And that person is now politically vulnerable, so this is their moment to begin a push. They may be pushing for different reasons, but they want to collapse Our House. Once the rubble clears, they will claw each other to power. That’s the way revolutions work.
It's a recruiting and screening tool. By having one of these gatherings every time a cause comes along it allows fellow travelers to congregate and renew acquaintances and share information.
It also recruits useful idiots to the program. The confusing and contradictory demands of the cause are a screening tool to make sure only the real idiots join.
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